According to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, more than 1,000 people were inside the mall when it was hit by Russian missiles.
The death toll from yesterday’s Russian rocket attack on a shopping mall in Kremencuk of central Ukraine.
Firefighters and soldiers are searching today survivors in the wreckage of a busy shopping mall hit by an attack condemned by the United Nations and the West.
Relatives of the missing are waiting at a hotel on the street where the mall is located and where rescuers have set up their base.
More from 1,000 people They were inside the mall when it was hit by two Russian missiles, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
According to Dmitry Lunin, Governor of Poltava, of this district southeast of Kiev where Kremenchuk is located, 25 people have been hospitalized, while 36 are missing.
This city in the center of Ukraine had about 220,000 inhabitants before the war and had so far escaped the bombing.
A survivor of the attack, Ludmila Mikhailic, 43, who is being treated at Kremenchuk Public Hospital, says she was shopping with her husband when she was blown up by the blast.
“I fell down with my head and fragments hit me in the body. The building was collapsing.” says.
“It was hell,” adds Mikola’s 45-year-old husband with traces of blood on the bandage wrapped around his head.
A 10,000-square-meter fire broke out in the aftermath of the rocket blast, which was extinguished yesterday afternoon, authorities said.
“Today’s Russian attack on a shopping mall in Kremenchuk is one of the most shameful terrorist acts in European history. A quiet city, an ordinary shopping mall with women, children and ordinary people in it.” said yesterday Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky in a video posted on Telegram.
“Only completely insane terrorists could strike such an installation with missiles and they should have no place on Earth.” Zelensky continued, referring to a “calculated blow”.
In the Bavarian Alps, its leaders Group of Seven The world’s most industrialized nations have issued a joint statement condemning the blow to the mall, calling it a “war crime”.
“Attacks carried out indiscriminately against innocent civilians are war crimes. “Russian President Vladimir Putin and other officials will be held accountable.” said in a statement issued by the G7 Heads of State and Government.
After the attack, the United Nations Security Council will be convened today Tuesday at the request of Ukraine.
Russia has not commented on the attack, but the Russian representative to the UN, the Dmitry Polianski, accused Ukraine of taking advantage of the attack to win sympathy ahead of the June 28-30 NATO Summit.
“We will have to wait for what our Ministry of Defense will say, but there are already too many sharp differences.” wrote Polianski on Twitter.
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